http://len.animationblogspot.com Always a working-in-progress Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:17:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing special here. I modeled some beakers and played with lighting and caustics. It could use a bit more work. The whole thing was done in 7 hours using LightWave (render time = 15 mins). http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/20/beakers/ Today is the first time I poked around the Mental Ray renderer for Maya. It's also the first time I fudged around with HDR images and lighting. This image is the result of those tests. It's a bit more washed out than I'd like, but whatever. At least I learned ... http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/04/mental-ray-test-render/ I'm starting this CGSociety challenge that began about 2 weeks ago, so any updates will be found at this post at CGtalk. Hopefully I'll finish this by the June deadline. http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/12/iron-giant/ http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/04/22/compositing-update/ Work has picked up so my time on Tankor has been limited. But today my boss was "working from home" again so I spent a little time on this. I noticed that the white car in the foreground didn't have a reflection of Tankor as he passes by. I modeled ... http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/04/16/that-white-car/ Here's a compositing update, done using my new Logitech MX Revolution. And After Effects. I rendered this in glorious Quicktime so you can pause it and scrub frame by frame with your mouse or arrow keys. (UPDATE 04-13-2008: I masked out the car in the foreground, and added some motion blur ... http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/04/12/just-got-a-new-mouse-and-did-some-compositing/ Every time I think of multipass rendering I hear Leeloo's voice. Anyways, today I did minor modeling and more texturing, and I started to set this scene up as multiple passes for compositing. I'm not going to explain it; instead, I'll let the pictures do the talking. I'm still working ... http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/03/31/multipass/ More timing-tweaking. http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/03/30/animation-update/ I did some more detail modeling, although they're not apparent in this shot. I also decided to give him colors similar to the cartoon version since that's the version most people would recognize. The body is still based on the toy though. I added a bit of depth blur to ... http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/03/24/modeling-texturing-and-lighting-updates/ Real quick update here: just wanted to start re-lighting the scene, making sure the shadows and stuff look about right. You have to click on the image to see a higher res image and compare the differences. http://len.animationblogspot.com/2008/03/23/lighting-test/